Quinn Shephard
Shephard in 2017
Born	Elizabeth Quinn Shephard (1995-02-28)February 28, 1995 (age 30) New Jersey, U.S.[1]
Occupations	Actress writer producer director film editor
Years active	2001–present
Partner	Nadia Alexander (2015–2023)

Elizabeth Quinn Shephard (born February 28, 1995)^[2] is an American actress, writer, producer, director, and film editor. She played the roles of Donna Malone in theChristmas comedyUnaccompanied Minors and Morgan Sanders in the television seriesHostages. In 2017, her feature filmdirectorial debut,Blame (which she also wrote, produced, edited, and starred in), screened at severalfilm festivals and earned critical attention.^[3]

Shephard grew up inMetuchen, New Jersey^[4] and the surroundingNew York area.^[5] She attendedMetuchen High School, which was used to film scenes from her movieBlame.^[6]

Shephard'sbig screen debut was in the 2001 French filmHarrison's Flowers at the age of five.^[7] Shephard's first starring role was in the holiday comedy feature filmUnaccompanied Minors. Shephard and her co-stars were nominated for Best Young Ensemble in a Feature Film at the29th Young Artist Awards.^[8] She later appeared in the comedy filmAssassination of a High School President (2008) and the horror filmSweet, Sweet Lonely Girl (2016).

Shephard has also appeared on television. In 2013, she played the recurring role of Morgan Sanders in theCBS thriller seriesHostages. From 2014 to 2015, she portrayed Claire Mahoney in the fourth season ofPerson of Interest. Shephard has played guest roles in several television series, includingLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit (2011),Made in Jersey (2012),The Blacklist (2013), andBelieve (2014).^[1]

In 2015, she was the recipient of the Rising Star Award at theGarden State Film Festival.^[9] In 2018, she appeared in the filmThe Miseducation of Cameron Post, which had its world premiere at theSundance Film Festival; it won the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Drama, the festival's highest honor.^[10]

Shephard developed the script for her first feature film,Blame, for several years.^[11] In 2015, after her financier fell through during the first week of shooting, Shephard partially self-financedBlame using money from her college fund.^[11] The film was shot in 19 days, and Shephard produced it with her mother, Laurie Shephard.^[11] Shephard also starred in the film as Abigail Grey, alongsideChris Messina,Nadia Alexander, andTate Donovan.^[12]

Blame screened at theTribeca Film Festival, making Shephard the youngest female director to debut a film there.^[13] It was nominated for several awards at Tribeca and won the award for Best Actress in a U.S. Narrative Feature (for Alexander's performance).^[14] The film received generally positive reviews from critics; it holds an 80% rating onRotten Tomatoes,^[15] while onMetacritic it holds a 54/100 rating.^[16]IndieWire called it a "solid debut", while writing that, though it "isn't fully realized", it establishes Shephard as "someone to watch".^[3]Glenn Kenny ofThe New York Times described the film as "earnest but underdeveloped".^[17]Filmmaker called the film "a poignant and incisive examination of modern American adolescence."^[18]The Hollywood Reporter called it "a mixed bag of a directorial debut".^[19]

Shephard identifies asqueer.^[20] She was formerly in a relationship withBlame co-starNadia Alexander.^[21]

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